GCT英语入学测试题

外语运用能力

入学测试(英语)

(50题，每题2分，满分100分，考试时间45分钟)

Part One Vocabulary and Structure

Directions:

There are ten incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

1. It is dangerous to cross streets which have heavy .

A. movement

B. traffic

C. cars

D. buses

2. He broke the world for the 800 meters.

A. mark

B. level

C. standard

D. record

3. I can’t follow your advice. Thank you for giving it.

A. Nevertheless

B. Instead

C. Clearly

D. Though

4. The elderly man remained unconscious after he had collapsed in the street.

A. on time

B. in time

C. at a time

D. all the time

5. Living in urban areas is generally more costly than living in

areas.

A. farm

B. rural

C. city

D. countryside

6. Computers can many different tasks.

A. form

B. reform

C. perform

D. inform

7. The price of the second-hand piano is relatively recently.

A. cheap

B. expensive

C. costly

D. low

8. The number of people now is greater than it was last year this time.

A. out of question

B. out of work

C. out of order

D. out of date

9. She ___________ in the feet on her way home from work.

A. was hurting

B. is hurt

C. hurts

D. got hurt

10. ___________ that Susan hadn't dared to make a sound.

A. So was he absorbed

B. So absorbed he was

C. So absorbed was he

D. So he was absorbed

Part Two Reading Comprehension

Directions:

In this part there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

Questions 11—15 are based on the following passage:

For all you space buffs who like to keep track of where the water is, it looks like you can add our very own moon to your list. Because according to a trio of papers appearing in the journal Science, the lunar surface is wetter than we realized.

Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts brought a bunch of moon rocks back home. For the most part those samples showed no traces of water whatsoever. Those that seemed even the slightest bit moist were thought to have been contaminated by water from Earth—because the containers they were stored in turned out to be leaky.

But now scientists say they’ve spotted water right on the moon’s surface. Using instruments on three different spacecraft, the scientists detected the chemical signature of good old H2O. And they think the water springs from the moon itself. The lunar soil is nearly 50 percent oxygen, and the scientists think that hydrogen comes from the solar wind that pounds the moon’s surface.

Put the two toget her and you get wet. Not too wet, of course. There’s probably only about a quart of water in every ton of lunar soil. That’s dryer than the Sahara, but wetter than we thought.

11. What can we learn from the papers appearing in the journal Science?

A. Someone went to moon and found water.